Advert for Adams and Page, Nottinghamshire

Photograph taken Unknown © Copyright Crown copyright.NMR ref: BB97/02559

Lace finishers Adams and Page's warehouse was built around 1800. This advert of the company shows more about their premises than their work, and suggests that they considered the size of their industry their biggest asset. The Nottingham warehouse is now workrooms and shops.

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Nottingham Nottingham

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Victorian (1837 - 1901)

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The machines to the right of this picture are carding machines. These used spiked drums in which the cotton was rotated. This process aligned the fibres, which were then placed in buckets as lengths or 'slivers'. The slivers were combined on a doubling frame, which is the machine that most of these women are working on.

Advert for Adams and Page, Nottinghamshire

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